Eddie Wisdom Jr., front and center, stands with other award winners at the Smyrna Parks and Recreation's Volunteer Awards dinner at the Smyrna Town Centre Friday night.

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Mark Bell
The Daily News Journal

Eddie Wisdom Jr. and several other Smyrna Parks and Recreations volunteers were honored for their dedicated service to the city and its children at an awards banquet held at the Town Centre Friday night.

Wisdom was the recipient of the prestigious Victory Lifetime Achievement Award, named in honor of Smyrna native Kenneth "Coon" Victory.

Cory Curtis, an on-air personality with the WKRN-TV in Nashville, was the keynote speaker at the event, and touched on the importance of volunteerism and what that sometimes entails. ...